Overview

This webinar covers insolvency law. Insolvency law deals with the processes applicable to persons who are unable to pay their debts and creates mechanisms for their creditors to regain at least some of the debt owed to them. Thoroughly understanding this area of the law is essential for any lawyer who wants to establish a commercially-focused practice. This webinar is also part of the Litigation & Commercial Law Short Course.

Join Adv Verlaine De Wit on 29 November 2022 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm where he will unpack this field of the law for you.  

Learning objectives

By the end of this webinar, you will have a firm grasp of the processes relating to the sequestration of individuals and the liquidation of companies.

Content

The webinar will cover the following

• What is insolvency
• The Insolvency Act & The Companies Act
• Sequestration
• Liquidation
• Business rescue
• Acts of Insolvency
• Locus standi to bring an application
• What is a debt
• Benefit to creditors
• The application process
• Creditor’s meetings
• Insolvency inquiries
• Winding up
• Liquidation and Distribution Accounts
• The Role of the Master of the High Court

About the Presenter

Advocate Verlaine de Wit is a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and keeps chambers with the Maisels Group. He has been in practice for over ten years and focuses mostly on mercantile law. He holds a LLM in International Trade Law and further qualifications in international commercial arbitration and film producing.

Who should attend?

• Attorneys
• Advocates
• Legal advisors
• Law clerks
• Pupils
• Law students
• Anyone interested in law

Price

R 500.00 per person 

This webinar is part of the Litigation & Commercial Law Short Course. To find out more about the short course, please click here.

Additional material

By attending this webinar you will be provided with:

• A summarised slide presentation.
• Reference documents and/or course material where available.
• You can ask questions during the webinar and you will also have access to the presenter after the webinar.

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